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STORING- MASS FOR GAS DISSOLVED IN A LIQUID AND METHOD OF PRODUCING THE SAME.

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T 0 all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, GUSTAF DALN, engineer, subject of the Kin of Sweden, residing at Skiirsatra, Li ingiin, Stockholm, Sweden, have invented new and useful Improvements in Storing Mass for Gas Dissolved in Liquid and Methods of Producing the Same, of which the following is a specification.

The present invention relates to a mass for storing compressed gas, such. as acetylene gas, dissolved in a liquid. According to the invention the mass is composed of a fibrous material, mixed with an organic or inorganic substance, which conglomerates or decomposes when heated, so as to form an adhesive or binding residue, by means of,

which the fibers of the fibrous material are bound together, so that a tough and porous coherent mass is produced. Asbestos or other similar material having the analogous property of being incombustible or of being ignited with difiiculty may be employed-to form the fibrous material of the mass. As

an adhesive or binding substance a carbo-' a receiver is filled with a mixture of say asbestos as fibrous material and albumen as binding substance, and said mass is made to fill up the receiver satisfactorily by the aid of a suitable tamper or by shaking the receiver. Then the receiver and the mass contained therein are heated so that the albumen employed in this case as an adhesive or binding substance will be decomposed, forming or precipitating carbon which adheres to and combines with the fibers of the fibrous material to bind them together, so that a brick or mass of coherent structure is formed, which fills up the receiver. When the brick or mass is produced in this manner the dissolving liquid and the gas to be Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented May 20., 1919.

Application filed July 28. 1916. Serial No. 111.964.

stored are introduced in the receiver in a manner well known.

According to this invention a filling mass substance and a binder for binding the fibers of said substance tcgethbr, said binder being the residue of a carbonizaible material mixed with the said fibrous substance, the said residue resulting from the heating of the mixture to cause decomposition of said material.

2. A porous mass comprising a fibrous substance and a binder of adhesive material combined with and in adhering relation to the fibers of said substance, the said adhesive material consisting of the residue remaining after the heating of a substance which on being heated decomposes and produces said residue.

3. The method of producing a porous mass of the character described, which coinprises the mixing together of a fibrous substance and a material which when heated yields an adhesive residue, and heating the said mixture to form said residue and thereby producing the said porous mass.

4. The method of producing a porous mass of the character described, which consists in mixing together in a receptacle a fibrous material and a substance which on being heated produces an adhesive residue, heating the said receptacle and the mixture therein to form in the said receptacle the said porous mass.

5. A porous mass containing a mixture of fibrous materialand a binder of carbonized material, the said mass being formed by heating a mixture ofsaid fibrous material and an organic substance to carbonize the latter.

6. A porous mass for storing gas dissolved in a li uid containing a fibrous material and a car onaceous binder therefor, the latter consisting of the residue of a carbonaceous material which remains after the heating of a mixture of the said fibrous material and the said carbonaceous material.

7 A porous mass containing fibrous mate rial and a binder of carbon formed by heating a mixture of said fibrous material and albumen.

8. A porous mass for storing gas dissolved in a liquid containing asbestos and a binder of carbon formed from albumen by the application. of heat to a mixture of the said asbestos and the said albumen.

9. A porous mass containing fibrous inatcrial and a binder of carbon, the latter be ing produced by efiecting decomposition of a carbonaceous material in the presence of the said fibrous material.

10. The method of producing a porous mass adapted for storing gas dissolved in a liquid, which consists in mixing together fibrous material and carbonaceous material and causing decomposition of the said carbonaceous materia to produce a carbon binder for combining with and binding the fibers of the said fibrous material together.

.11. The method of mass for storing gas issolved in a liquid which consists in mixing a fibrous material with a substance which when heated produces a residue having adhesive properties and heating the said mixture to produce said residue and form said porous mass.

12. The method of producing a porous mass for storing gas dissolved 1n a liquid which consists in mixing a fibrous material with a carbon-c0ntaining substance capable of producing an adhesive residue when heated and heating said mixture to produce said residue and form said porous mass.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

GUSTAF DALEN.

Witnesses:

FRANK D. LYON, WALDEMAR BOMAN.

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